Freshly recovered from one week of holidays I now catch up the latest things happened between Christmas and now. And as usual I am again a bit late with the list.

• Ooh, that is a harsh title. But Yoav Weiss knows what he's talking about when he says: Bandwidth media queries we don't need them

• Bryan Jones introduced its own HTML preprocessor in CodeKit 1.4. This means you now can use variables in HTML using the .kit file format. Holy shit this is what we want!

• PPK published a huge article about implementation of CSS gradients in the User Agents

• jng5 released the first version of her supercool responsive email boilerplate. This is incredibly useful! Check out Antwort

• Monotype released its new product called Skyfonts. An app that let's you rent fonts for a specific time frame. We finally have a good product again for fonts. The good: That makes it cheap to buy a font for client-work.

• Web Performance Crash Course - PDF slides about basics of web performance optimization techniques.

• You wondered about how to deal with lightboxes on mobile? This is a hard one but Brad Frost has an answer in his project Conditional Lightbox

Conference advisory:

• UX design conference in Munich, Germany, with Nishant Kothary, Leisa Reichelt, Vitaly Friedman, Bastian Allgeier and more awesome speakers. UXMunich.com

• Last chance to grab a ticket for TakeOff Conference in Lille

• Hey, you should help move the web forward! So attend to the Web Platform Doc Sprint in Berlin

• Finally I will attend to the jQuery Europe in Vienna. Sounds awesome!

• and last but not least, the only big publishing conference in Europe is happening in Berlin: PUBKON 13 - register fast, tickets will sell out fast.